Carl Theodor Gossen

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Carl Theodor Gossen , also Charles Théodore Gossen , (born September 30, 1915 in Geneva ; † February 3, 1983 in Basel ) was a Swiss Romance scholar and linguist .

Life

Gossen received his doctorate in Zurich with The Picardy as a Linguistic Landscape of the Middle Ages (based on the documents) (Biel 1942). He completed his habilitation in 1952 in Basel with Walther von Wartburg with studies on syntactic and stylistic emphasis in modern Italian (Berlin 1954). Gossen was a professor in Frankfurt and was appointed to the University of Vienna as the successor to Toni Reinhard in 1959 (inaugural lecture: Problematic of the French language crisis, Vienna 1960). In 1967 he was appointed to Basel, again as the successor to Toni Reinhard, and was rector of the University of Basel in 1976/77. From 1979 he was head of the French Etymological Dictionary .

Fonts

  • (together with Hugo Glättli) 400 gallicismes: A l'usage des élèves des écoles moyennes de la Suisse alémanique , Bern 1948, 2nd edition 1954
  • Petite grammaire de l'ancien picard , Paris 1951
  • (Editing in conjunction) Etymologica. Walther von Wartburg on his seventieth birthday, May 18, 1958. Dedicated by friends and students . In connection with Kurt Baldinger , Carl Theodor Gossen, Alwin Kuhn , Toni Reinhard , ed. by Hans-Erich Keller , Tübingen 1958
  • French script studies. Investigations into the northern French document languages ​​of the Middle Ages , Vienna / Graz / Cologne 1967
  • Grammaire de l'ancien picard . Éditions Klincksieck, Paris 1970 (and other editions)
  • Walther von Wartburg May 18, 1888–15. August 1971 , in: Vox Romanica 30, 1971, pp. 225-241
  • Of language dirigism and norm. Rector's speech given at the annual celebration of the University of Basel on November 26, 1976 , Basel 1976
  • (together with André Gendre and Georges Straka ) Mélanges d'études romanes du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance offerts à Jean Rychner par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis , Strasbourg 1978

literature

  • Carl Theodor Gossen on his 50th birthday, on September 30, 1965, dedicated by the Association of Austrian New Philologists , Vienna 1965 ( Modern Languages 9, 1965, Issue 2–4)
  • Mélanges de langue et de littérature romanes offerts à Carl Theodor Gossen , ed.Germán Colón, Robert Kopp, 2 vols., Bern / Liège 1976
  • Kurt Baldinger in: Journal for Romance Philology 99, 1983, pp. 713 ff
  • Hans Goebl in: Lexicon grammaticorum , ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, Tübingen 1996, pp. 357-358

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personal data
SURNAME Gossen, Carl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gossen, Charles Théodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1983
Place of death Basel